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Jane knew what to do
when she heard murmurs in the ceiling,
knew what to do when she struck out on the moor.
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At 11 pm, it is 87 degrees and I sit in front of the air conditioner, eating oatmeal. The oats aren't soft enough, but it is sugary and fills me. Outside, the city hovers at the edge of a brown out, people sweating hopelessly inside small boxes. In Utah, it was cold…
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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149453
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We entered the castle at dawn. The dim light feebly illumined an array of antiques and medieval weapons. Bats dangled from the high vaulted ceiling, enfolded in membranous wings. What were once chandeliers radiating light were encrusted with webs and the ancient wax…
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149443
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Ey’, it’s where I followed him down
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149420
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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.
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149410
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It's saying, "It feels as if you've given me your old, your tired and your poor. I feel much older than the years you've logged."
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149452
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The increasingly furrowed lines on his forehead made her stomach clench.
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149455
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While watching the ever-present crowds
passing by on my insides, I noticed,
by accident, a man smiling
who might have been me, not sure.
Maybe I’m eating soap
for the first time, because I am
either frothing or foaming
at the mouth.
An
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There is a roofer straddling part of our house, pushing shingles off of our roof with the edge of a shovel. …. I've thought seriously, at times, about becoming a nurse. Seeing your mother in a hospital bed, hooked up to a tube, more than one, too…
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149454
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You can tell your doctor the truth
Even if no one else will stop and listen
He or she may have a balm for it
To help make it go away
Or at least go into remission
Remission is the staging area for Lies
Corporate and otherwise
We don’t have
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149453
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The mother, a pony-tailed beauty, thinks she looks fat in her
new blue-checked pedal pushers and white blouse tied
under her full breasts— in the latest style.
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149455
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In my 14 to 15 year old life in the late 50s I worked as a clean-up boy in the neighborhood butcher shop up on 5th. Ave.,
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149461
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It was the dead of winter. I took my father's shotgun from his closet. He kept it wrapped up in one of those khaki-colored gun tote bags that had a zipper running the whole length of the gun. It was a 16-gauge, single action shotgun. Anyone could tell wha
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149341
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Ben was not a happy musician.
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149321
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Just an abnormal visit to the post office.
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1493179
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In the next week or two, the red oak/
will loose and lose its leaves
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149321
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...to know they are not alone
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149363
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In that time when the trunk was getting cleared out and when it became only the empty shell of what had once been so important, many things hit the match. She burned an old black negligee, a picture competing with the likes of a Vargas girl and other thin
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149362
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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149332
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"I'm just going to
take a power nap!"
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149364
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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14931012
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All the things that are his.
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149351
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A dead deer on the side of the road and the older boys not listening to her as they stab its eye with a stick.
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149355
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where will we be/ when it happens?
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149377
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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149296
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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149233
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Amanda Palmer's explaining the eyebrow thing. An altercation with someone at Roadrunner, or maybe old boyfriend shit to burn— She's animated but he's losing signal, filling in the blanks himself. Whatever, it won't light at first, and then WHUMP and she…
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